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A comparison of zero and minimal intelligence agendas in majority-rule voting models

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  • Brewer, Paul J
  • juybari, jeremy
  • Moberly, Raymond

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Emergent behavior in repeated collective decisions of minimally intelligent agents -- who at each step in time invoke majority rule to choose between a status quo and a random challenge -- can manifest through the long-term stationary probability distributions of a Markov Chain. We use this known technique to compare two kinds of voting agendas: a zero-intelligence agenda that chooses the challenger uniformly at random, and a minimally-intelligent agenda that chooses the challenger from the union of the status quo and the set of winning challengers. We use Google Co-Lab's GPU accelerated computing environment to compute stationary distributions for some simple examples from spatial-voting and budget-allocation scenarios. We find that the voting model using the zero-intelligence agenda converges more slowly, but in some cases to better outcomes.

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  • Brewer, Paul J & juybari, jeremy & Moberly, Raymond, 2023. "A comparison of zero and minimal intelligence agendas in majority-rule voting models," OSF Preprints ajfdb_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:ajfdb_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/ajfdb_v1
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